A Gaming Blog

Hi. Welcome to Where The Monsters Are. You’ve stumbled over a blog about those crafty addictive beasts we now know by the awful acronym, MMORPGs. That is, Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games. But if you’re here you probably already know that.

Firstly, my credentials: I’m a wandering MMO fiend and have played a wide range of games in the genre since I started some 12 years ago. I’ve played most of the major titles, starting with Ultima Online in 1998, then moving swiftly to 3D games like EverQuest, Asheron’s Call, Dark Age of Camelot, Star Wars Galaxies, EverQuest 2, World of Warcraft, Age of Conan, Lord of the Rings Online, Warhammer Online, and most recently Rift. I’ve even gone retrograde and played some MUDs and MUSHes during this time. I’ve played Live Servers mostly, but have some experience with emulated servers. I can tend towards nostalgia, and for that reason I’ve gone back over the years to most of these games, often multiple times.